Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”

– Basil King

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”

– Anna Quindlen

Almost anyone can start a community, but it takes real talent and commitment to get people to show up and keep coming back.”

– Andy Sernovitz

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”

– Thomas Dunn

If you want to be busy, keep trying to be perfect. If you want to be happy, focus on making a difference.”

– Lisa Earle McLeod

If you were independently wealthy and never had to work a day in your life, would you still choose to spend your time attempting to become a successful entrepreneur?”

– Steven Schussler

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”

– Charles Dickens

Do you have the desire to create something new; the strength of conviction to believe your creation will be successful, and the reservoir of energy necessary to thrust it into the marketplace?”

– Steven Schussler

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”

– Benjamin Disraeli

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”

– Henry Miller

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”

– Albert Schweitzer

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it”

– Andrew Carnegie

We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”

– William Blake

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”

– Robert H. Schuller

Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”

– Groucho Marx

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”

– Goldie Hawn

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”

– Helen Keller

What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”

– Jim Butcher, White Night

Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”

– Victor Kiam

Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

– Christopher Robin to Pooh

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

– John Quincy Adams

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”

– Voltaire

I have spent a good part of my life convincing people that a blank sheet of paper is the greatest opportunity in the world, and not frightening at all.”

– Marty Skler, executive vp, Walt Disney Imagineering

As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.”

– Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

The journey is the reward.”

– Greg Norman

Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”

– Madam C.J. Walker

Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”

– Peter F. Drucker

There is little success where there is little laughter.”

– Andrew Carnegie

No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

– Thomas Edison

‎No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”

– Charles Dickens

Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”

– William Jennings Bryan

How do you stay resilient? It’s about momentum. Like riding a bicycle. If you stop you fall over. So I keep pedaling.”

– Diane Lane

Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”

– Benjamin Franklin

The follow-your-gut mentality of the entrepreneur has the potential to take you anywhere you want to go or run you right out of business.”

– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"

Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”

– Arthur Rubinstein

I’ve come to confirm that one’s title, even that of president, says little about how well one’s life has been led. No matter how much you’ve done, or how successful you’ve been, there’s always more to do, to learn, and to achieve.”

– Barack Obama

A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”

– Martha Beck

Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”

– Carlos Castaneda

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

– Carl Rogers

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”

– Mark Twain

They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”

– Hindu Proverb

Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”

– Richard Dumb

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”

– Cecil B. DeMille

To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”

– Anna Pavlova

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”

– Ray Bradbury

He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”

– African Proverb

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”

– J. Kristnhamurti, The First and Last Freedom